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Mar. 18, 2010 | 14:39 PDT | 21:39 UTC
Making a difference through the Shoemaker NEO Grants
Amir Alexander has just posted an update on the activities of the most recent winners of the Shoemaker NEO Grants. For just one example, Robert Holmes, of the Astronomical Research Institute in Charleston, Illinois, has taken more than 130,000... More»
Mar. 17, 2010 | 14:39 PDT | 21:39 UTC
And now for Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1
I am delighted to report that within a day of the first view of Luna 21 and Lunokhod 2 since the end of that mission in 1973, the sister mission, Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1, has also been found -- and this time by Russian scientists. They discovered... More»
Mar. 17, 2010 | 14:06 PDT | 21:06 UTC
Charlie Bolden Addresses Misconceptions of NASA's New Plan
by Charlene Anderson
There's been wide-spread confusion in the media about what NASA's FY 2011 would actually mean for the space agency. Charlie Bolden, NASA Administrator, addressed the misconceptions in a speech on March 16 to the Washington... More»
Mar. 17, 2010 | 11:39 PDT | 18:39 UTC
Propose for a Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grant
Are you a serious amateur astronomer who enjoys the challenge of following up on the discoveries of faint near-Earth objects? Would an upgrade to your equipment make you more productive? Then propose for the 2010 round of The Planetary Society's... More»
Mar. 17, 2010 | 10:26 PDT | 17:26 UTC
Lunokhod found on the Moon -- and on Earth, too
Yesterday I posted a bit of a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera image showing the tracks of the Russian Lunokhod 2 rover. Today, I can post for you an image showing the rover's final resting place: the patch of bright pixels near the top of the... More»
Mar. 16, 2010 | 15:18 PDT | 22:18 UTC
Titan: Callisto with weather
It's the second time I've posted with this provocative title. The first time, I was just reposting the title of a talk given by Jeff Moore at the 2008 meeting of the American Geophysical Union. This time, it's in response to a new paper published... More»
Mar. 16, 2010 | 07:47 PDT | 14:47 UTC
The far side of Phobos
Now here is an unusual image of Phobos, Mars' moon. We are looking onto the side of Phobos that faces away from Mars. ESA's Mars Express is the only spacecraft currently in Mars orbit -- the only one since the Viking orbiters -- that is capable of... More»
Mar. 15, 2010 | 20:55 PDT | Mar. 16 03:55 UTC
Soviet landers Luna 20, 23, and 24, plus the tracks of Lunokhod 2
Today is the bonanza day for Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: the first formal release of orbiter data happened this morning, including 10 Terabytes (that is 10 million Megabytes!) of camera data. I am in the middle of writing a lengthy post on that... More»
Mar. 15, 2010 | 08:30 PDT | 15:30 UTC
Phobos from Mars Express
ESA has released the first image from Mars Express' recent close flybys of Phobos, posted below! For a little review on Phobos' geography and why Mars Express is uniquely suited to imaging it, check out this earlier blog post on some of the many... More»
Mar. 12, 2010 | 12:27 PST | 20:27 UTC
LPSC: Wrapping up Tuesday: The Moon, Mars, Mercury, Vesta, and back to Mars
Well, it's already mid-day on the Friday a week after the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ended and I'm STILL not done writing up my notes. In the interest of moving on to other things, I am now posting pretty much everything I have left,... More»
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